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All I can say is take comfort in knowing there was many more baninng of accounts from SWTOR today. You should have reported the exploit instead of doingit over and over to your gain and amusement (that's what you get).
Even if you tell or discuss with someone how to exploit and keep doing it without reporting it (even in PvP) you have violated the agreement.
I think this post shines of uncertainty. If you didn't do it, there should be no "Where does it say that X is punishable" speech. If you are knowingly innocent, then there should be nothing but your conviction in that, that holds weight.
I think if this is a true thing, you are worried that BioWare actually has a something that could be distinguished as an illegal gametesting act, whether it was posting testing information outside the testing*area*, or general misconduct while testing, it may not be something illegal in the literal sense.
If this does turn out to be a mistake, it will all be answered in time, but I think behaviorally this was probably the wrong way to go about it.
Yeah good one,
Post, transmit, promote, or distribute Content that is illegal.
They say in there email that I was discussing illegal "content" I guess.
Yeah sure whatever, thats me all I do is promote illegal content every where I go.
Would you guys like to know about some illegal content? I have some literautre on the subject if you're interested.
Are you serious/
Whether you did or did not aside, to think that a game can't ban you for discussing illegal activity because they didnt write it down somewhere is just naive. I say ban the people!!!! If you in fact did not, I wish you well in pleading your case if you did, good riddins.
If I were a dev for swtor and wanted quality game testers, I would put in tests to see how testers handled the situation. Exploitables is a good test to see if something gets reported or abused.
Their Game. Their Rules. Thanks for playing.
Okay sure I was upset about being accused of promoting illegal activity. It's like getting charged with some crime that you are innocent of, I was upset yeah perhaps this wasn't the most ideal way of going about it.
I should have just been like oh well you cant fight city hall. Why would I get so upset about this unless I was wrongfully accused. If i had done something against the NDA I would have just been like oh whops got caught, oh well. Instead of emailing them multiple times and trying to get to the bottom of it.
Next time you should'nt call your buddy up to come watch you play the game over your shoulder. That would be a violation of the agreement
lol
*hugs you*
I'm gonna call troll on this one. Nothing but the same remarks slightly reworded for the last 15 comments by the OP. I'm out. I suggest y'all do the same.
Then it looks like I need to get some new friends if they are reporting me to Bioware. I will have an inquisition on the morrow of all my "friends" and get to the bottom of this.
Lol jk I live in a basement that I have tranformed into a dungeon. I don't have friends or see the light of day, my only friends are my magic cards and I doubt any of them reported me, unless they can speak, which I have tried to enchant them and perhaps they have come to life.
Unfortunatly for you posting in this forum has probably destroyed any chance you may have had of fixing the issue. In future if you have a issue with a company over a unfair banning follow these simple common sense rules :-
1) Appeal using the offical channels
2) Wait a reasonable amount of time (upto 2 weeks is reasonable)
3) Remember your not a major concern of theirs and if you make to much of a stink its easier to just perma ban you than deal with you.
4) Be polite and conherent in your correspondance. A well written statement of your case and situation recieves a far better response than swearing and threats.
5) Lastly do not under AND circumstances post anything concerning the situation on a public forum
Follow these 5 simple rules and your chances of fixing the issue are greatly increased (especially fi your innocent). breka them and even being innocent may bot be enough.
Gadareth
If I was a dev I'd want people to exploit and abuse the crap out of the game in beta so I could utterly destroy such attempts long before release. Then I'd challenge the testers to find new ones. That's what a tester is supposed to do.
My opinion is that "testers" should be payed for their services anyways. Maybe a year free when released. Not just given the unfinished game to run around in. Testing takes time, patience and cunning if you're doing it right. That's another flaw in the MMO development system IMO.
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Yeah I was just joking. It sucks to get banned, at the same time don't let it taint your oppinion of the game. I assumed BioWare would be pretty harsh on their policies, considering how closed they are about information and the protection of their licensed property. You didn't happen to post this did you? xD
Before getting your panties in a wad you might wanna give them some more time to respond. Believe it or not you probably are not high on their priority list of things to do ASAP.
" its been 4 hours" lol.
The only thing you can say about beta, is say you are in the beta. That's all that bioware said you can mention on their website.
So if you let slip that you were, let's say, playing a Bounty Hunter, they could if they so choose, to ban you.
Now, I don't care to search your posts here, or at swtor.com, but maybe you should check to see if you accidently let slip something like that.
Maybe you even said, "it doesn't work like that in the game".
Or maybe you are just one of those people that drive faster then the speed limit says you can, and because you weren't caught before, think it was okay to do it again. And then when you get caught, you B & M. Or maybe you posted on some site you thought was "safe and hidden", but they knew about it.
yeah, 4 hours? lol
No I did not post, that. Lol.
THanks for everyones constructive criticism, I didn't come here to flame, or rag on Bioware. Some of you were skeptical I understand.
In the end I supposed this thread brought up bigger concepts, like what it means to be a public game tester.
But he knows a guy who did post that.
"When it comes to GW2 any game is fair game"
It's called a NDA (NON DISCLOSURE AGREEMENT) and you signed it when you accepted and registered the code, or were you too busy clicking yes to everything?
My thought is that it depends on what they mean by "illegal activity".
My second thought is "what WERE you discussing".
Now, don't go blabbing that on these forums as you don't want to get banned here as well, but why would they single you out? You might not think you did anything wrong but maybe you did something that another might be construed as wrong?
In any case, 4 hours is not enough time to process your rebuttal. I would say a day or so.
It's not like you are the only thing they need to address during the beta test.
And I certainly hope that you responded like an adult and were polite as opposed to calling them thought police?
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Game developers are not stupid. All they have to do is ask the mmorpg.com staff the i.p. address of the original poster of the thread, and if it matches an ip in their tracking system, then you seriously screwed up and I doubt you'll ever get your permissions back to play. Don't mean to sound negative here, but I'm almost positive that the appeals process for getting unbanned doesn't included trying to plead your case in the court of public opinion on MMORPG.com
Fear not fanbois, we are not trolls, let's take off your tin foil hat and learn what VAPORWARE is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaporware
"Vaporware is a term used to describe a software or hardware product that is announced by a developer well in advance of release, but which then fails to emerge after having well exceeded the period of development time that was initially claimed or would normally be expected for the development cycle of a similar product."
So, since you got banned you might as well spill the beans about the game.. I mean you're already banned...
There you go. Quickest way to Lock this thread.